School admissions in Coalville

How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. Sorted by first preferences per place. We don't invent rankings: the order is arithmetic on a published figure, not a view about which school is better.

Reception places, September 2026

20 schools. 3 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Woodstone Community Primary SchoolCoalville	1.30	30
Griffydam Primary SchoolCoalville	1.07	15
Warren Hills Community Primary SchoolCoalville	1.07	30
Broom Leys SchoolCoalville	1.00	61
Heather Primary SchoolCoalville	1.00	10
Holy Cross School A Catholic Voluntary AcademyCoalville	1.00	15
New Swannington Primary SchoolCoalville	1.00	24
Newbold Church of England Primary SchoolCoalville	1.00	2
Saint Clare's Primary School A Catholic Voluntary Academy, Coalville, LeicestershireCoalville	1.00	27
Swannington Church of England Primary SchoolCoalville	1.00	8
Whitwick St John The Baptist Church of England Primary SchoolCoalville	0.98	52
Hugglescote Community Primary SchoolCoalville	0.96	75
Thringstone Primary SchoolCoalville	0.96	24
Greenstone Primary SchoolCoalville	0.95	58
All Saints Church of England Primary School, CoalvilleCoalville	0.95	38
Ellistown Community Primary SchoolCoalville	0.92	24
Belvoirdale Community Primary SchoolCoalville	0.88	34
Newton Burgoland Primary SchoolCoalville	0.83	6
Viscount Beaumont's Church of England Primary SchoolCoalville	0.83	12
Thornton Primary SchoolCoalville	0.76	21

First preferences per place is the number of families naming the school first, divided by its published admission number. Above 1.00 means more first choices than places. It is not a ranking and not a measure of quality: a popular school can be easy to get into and a quiet one hard, because places are allocated by each school's own criteria, siblings and faith and banding first, with distance often the last tie-breaker. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE.